Polish and antique wood with beer

Turns out, all those spilled beer is exactly where they should be! Some ways you can use beer to polish wood funitures and floors:

Basic polish: pour some flat beer onto a microfiber rag and rub it into wooden furniture to add some shine and deepen the color.

 

Polish Recipe #1: This one is good for oak furniture. (credit)

Boil together

one quart of beer

1 tablespoon sugar

2 tablespoons beeswax

Cool, then wipe onto your furniture. Let this dry. Polish with a soft cloth.

Antique wood with beer: Traditional dark beers will create an antique wood effect far quicker.

Highlights

• Chestnut dark mild beer has the strength to stain the wood, premium lager would do nothing.
• Sand off the layers of polish or varnish. 
• Must use CLEAN CLOTH for staining. Dip cloth into a dish of dark beer and rub onto the surface of the wood. 
• Let a corner of the clean cloth soak into the dark beer and sit the beer soaked cloth on top of the wood for an uneven finish look that antique wood have. 
• Add a light coat of varnish to seal the color in when you have the color you want.

 Detailed instruction here.

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